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| 1. |
According to anthropologists Melanesians believed in |
| A. | Power |
| B. | Religion |
| C. | Sect |
| D. | Mana |
| Answer» E. | |
| 2. |
Melanesians believed in people, animals, plants and objects which is called |
| A. | Power |
| B. | Prestige |
| C. | Mana |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 3. |
According to anthropologists a magician wish to injure or kill someone is it true or not? |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't Say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 4. |
According to anthropologists magic refers to |
| A. | Power |
| B. | Knowledge |
| C. | Supernatural |
| D. | Polytheism |
| Answer» D. Polytheism | |
| 5. |
Anthropologists said that to share certain beliefs, values, customs and norms because of their common back-grounds called |
| A. | Social ethnic |
| B. | Ethnic group |
| C. | Ethnic individuals |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» C. Ethnic individuals | |
| 6. |
According to anthropologists the term status is used for |
| A. | Class |
| B. | Prestige |
| C. | both a and b |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 7. |
Anthropologists said that members of a given ethnic groups may speak |
| A. | Common language |
| B. | Different language |
| C. | Local language |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Different language | |
| 8. |
According to anthropologists the study of speech sounds, considers which sounds are present and significant is known as |
| A. | Linguistic |
| B. | Phonology |
| C. | Communication |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Communication | |
| 9. |
According to anthropologists gender stratification also is linked to descent and residence and women status is called as |
| A. | Matrilocal |
| B. | Matrilineal |
| C. | both a and b |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 10. |
According to anthropologists dominance and cultural diversity, interethnic encounters, the world system it's because of |
| A. | Education |
| B. | Religion |
| C. | Environment |
| D. | Society |
| Answer» C. Environment | |
| 11. |
Anthropologists said that ethnicity is based on common cultural traditions not mainly on |
| A. | Linguistically |
| B. | Culture |
| C. | Biological feature |
| D. | Social groups |
| Answer» D. Social groups | |
| 12. |
Who defined religion as "belief" and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, power and forces |
| A. | Max Weber |
| B. | Anthony F.C |
| C. | Karl Polanyi |
| D. | Kroeeber |
| Answer» C. Karl Polanyi | |
| 13. |
According to anthropologists gender roles and gender stratification carry with |
| A. | Environment |
| B. | Community |
| C. | Country |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» B. Community | |
| 14. |
The processes, including diffusion and acculturation, working to promote change in a world in which nations and people are increasingly interlinked and mutually dependent is called |
| A. | Civilization |
| B. | Capitalism |
| C. | Globlization |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 15. |
The social science discipline that focuses directly on understanding and predicting individual behaviour is known as |
| A. | Psychology |
| B. | Sociology |
| C. | Anthropology |
| D. | Political science |
| Answer» B. Sociology | |
| 16. |
Cultural experience, beliefs, learned behavior patterns, and values shared by citizens of the same nation is called |
| A. | State culture |
| B. | Local culture |
| C. | Community |
| D. | National culture |
| Answer» E. | |
| 17. |
The outcome studied through research and believed to be caused or influenced by an independent variable is known as |
| A. | Transient variable |
| B. | Independent variable |
| C. | Dependent variable |
| D. | Intransient variable |
| Answer» D. Intransient variable | |
| 18. |
The behavioural science hybrid psychology and sociology is known as |
| A. | Psychology |
| B. | Psycho sociology |
| C. | Social psychology |
| D. | Socpsycology |
| Answer» D. Socpsycology | |
| 19. |
Acting ethically in business |
| A. | Is immoral |
| B. | Reduces profits |
| C. | leads to bad decisions |
| D. | Promotes long term benefits |
| Answer» E. | |
| 20. |
According to anthropologies male subsistence labor dominated in what percent? |
| A. | 80% |
| B. | 81% |
| C. | 85% |
| D. | 88% |
| Answer» C. 85% | |
| 21. |
According to anthropologists the tasks and activities that a culture assigns to each sex is called |
| A. | Gender roles |
| B. | Womanish |
| C. | Gynic |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 22. |
According to anthropologists extradomestic means? |
| A. | Out side the home |
| B. | Inside the home |
| C. | Both inside and out side the home |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Inside the home | |
| 23. |
Who was the founder of anthropology of religion? |
| A. | Max Weber |
| B. | Kroeber |
| C. | Karl Polanyi |
| D. | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Answer» E. | |
| 24. |
According to religion writer Edward Burnett death is departure of the soul from the Latin for soul and what Tylor name the soul? |
| A. | Anima |
| B. | Aleema |
| C. | Animta |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Aleema | |
| 25. |
According to anthropology Malinowski found that the Trobriand Islanders used magic when |
| A. | Buying some thing |
| B. | Giving some thing |
| C. | Sailing |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 26. |
Today some people think "ethnic group" and "ethnicity" are just politically correct ways of talking about |
| A. | Culture |
| B. | Race |
| C. | Geography |
| D. | Community |
| Answer» C. Geography | |
| 27. |
According to anthropologists ethnicity, class, region or religion individuals often have more than one group identity which is called |
| A. | Individual culture |
| B. | Subcultures |
| C. | Culture |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» C. Culture | |
| 28. |
The reciprocal nature of power was articulated by |
| A. | Barnard |
| B. | Follett |
| C. | Fayol |
| D. | Taylor |
| Answer» C. Fayol | |
| 29. |
Who gave the concept of rites of passage |
| A. | Kroeeber |
| B. | Redcliff-Brown |
| C. | Max weber |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Max weber | |
| 30. |
The social science that studies how individuals interact with one another in social systems is know as |
| A. | Psychology |
| B. | Sociology |
| C. | Anthropology |
| D. | Political science |
| Answer» C. Anthropology | |
| 31. |
Members of an ethnic group may define themselves and or be defined by others as different and special because of their language, religion, geography, history, ancestry or physical traits is called |
| A. | Culture |
| B. | sterotype |
| C. | Race |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 32. |
Critical theory is |
| A. | Often closely related to Marxist ideas |
| B. | A reaction against Marxism |
| C. | Based on a restatement of traditional liberal views |
| D. | A 'realist' acceptance of global exploitation |
| Answer» B. A reaction against Marxism | |
| 33. |
Malinowski found that the magic is used to real tragedies of human life in |
| A. | 1931/1978 |
| B. | 1935/1970 |
| C. | 1930/1980 |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. 1935/1970 | |
| 34. |
Cultural relativism by invoking a realm of justice and morality beyond and superior to particular countries, cultures, and religions is called |
| A. | Human rights |
| B. | Cultural traits |
| C. | Human behavior |
| D. | Human needs |
| Answer» B. Cultural traits | |
| 35. |
In anthropology the tendency to view one's own culture are superior and to apply one's own culture values in judging the behaviors and beliefs of people is called |
| A. | Theo centrism |
| B. | Xenocentrism |
| C. | Ethnocentrism |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» D. All of the above | |
| 36. |
According to religious anthropology the belief in a single, all powerful deity is called |
| A. | Monotheism |
| B. | Panatisum |
| C. | Polytheism |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Panatisum | |
| 37. |
The everyday tasks of management include |
| A. | Planning and creativity |
| B. | Planning and leading |
| C. | Publicity and loss adjustment |
| D. | Plotting and leading |
| Answer» C. Publicity and loss adjustment | |
| 38. |
Ethnocentrism is called |
| A. | Culture difference |
| B. | Human culture |
| C. | Sociocultural |
| D. | Cultural relativism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 39. |
Many cultural traits are widely shared because of diffusion and independent invention and as cultural universals is called |
| A. | Particularity |
| B. | Some time |
| C. | Uncultured |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» B. Some time | |
| 40. |
According to anthropologists the scientific study of a spoken language descriptive linguistics like phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax is called |
| A. | Communication |
| B. | Symbols |
| C. | Signs |
| D. | Structure of language |
| Answer» E. | |
| 41. |
Recent Marxist-inspired theorists have argued what? |
| A. | Many developing countries are still living with the legacy of Western imperialism |
| B. | The capitalist world economy transcends individual nation states |
| C. | Eurocentric explanations of international political economy are open to serious objections |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 42. |
Mechanism of cultural change, is the exchange of cultural features that results when groups have different culture is called |
| A. | Assamilation |
| B. | Acculturation |
| C. | Globlization |
| D. | Migration |
| Answer» C. Globlization | |
| 43. |
Ethnicity can be expressed in peaceful multiculturism, or |
| A. | Discrimination |
| B. | Difference |
| C. | both a and b |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Difference | |
| 44. |
According to anthropologists supernatural is particularly prominent in Melanesia the area of the south pacific and |
| A. | Papua New Guinea |
| B. | America |
| C. | Sweden |
| D. | India |
| Answer» B. America | |
| 45. |
According to anthropologists religion and magic don?t just explain things and help people accomplish goals but it can help to reduce |
| A. | Illness |
| B. | Tention |
| C. | Exhausted |
| D. | Anxiety |
| Answer» E. | |
| 46. |
Different methods of data collection and analysis emerged in anthropology are called |
| A. | Cultural anthropology |
| B. | Linguistic anthropology |
| C. | Physical anthropology |
| D. | Psychological anthropology |
| Answer» B. Linguistic anthropology | |
| 47. |
According to anthropologists the studies forms in which sounds combine to form morphemes is called |
| A. | Linguistic |
| B. | Phonology |
| C. | Morphology |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» D. All of the above | |
| 48. |
The anthropologists were there to |
| A. | Destroy culture |
| B. | Change |
| C. | Salvage cultures |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 49. |
According to anthropologists those who relate behavior and social orgnization to cultural or enviromental factors is called |
| A. | Biological |
| B. | Cultural |
| C. | Physical |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Physical | |
| 50. |
What did Edward Sad's Orientalism argue? |
| A. | Europeans have tended to define themselves in opposition to the 'oriental' other |
| B. | Leyton Orient is the world's finest football team |
| C. | European culture is superior to Eastern culture |
| D. | Over the centuries European commentators and politicians have tried too hard to appease militant Isl |
| Answer» B. Leyton Orient is the world's finest football team | |